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(No Model.) T. R. A. WEBER, C. G. E. HENNIG & A. E. FROMMELT.

TRIOYOLE.

No. 321,162. Patented June 30, 1885.

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IJNITED STATE THEODOR R. A. WEBER, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., AND CARL G. E.HENNIG AND ALFRED E. FROMMELT, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

TRICYCLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,162, dated June 30,1885.

Application filed February 25, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THEODOR It. A. WEBER, of the city, county and Stateof New York, and CARL G. E. HENNIG and ALFRED 5 E. FROMMEL'LDf Paterson,in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a newand Improved Tricycle, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description. I

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of referenceindicate-corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of our new tricycle is with the seats removed.Fig 2 is a central longitudinal sectional elevation of the tricycle.Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional elevation taken on the line x of Fig.1, and Figs. 4 and 5 are, respectively, front and sectional views of 2sprocket-wheels removed from the shaft.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawingsand then pointed out in the claims.

The main frame A of the tricycle may be 2 5 of any desired construction.In thisinstance it is composed of the bent side pieces, a a, rearcross-piece, b, central cross-piece, 0, and front coupling, d, which issocketed to receive the turn-post B in and to which the frontguide-wheel, O, is journaled.

To the upper end of the post B is secured the lever D, by which the postB and the wheel 0 may be turned for guiding the tricycle. The rear partof the main frame A rests upon the axle E, which has the main wheels F Fjournaled upon its ends.

Depending from the side pieces, a a, are the side frames or hangers, GG, secured to the side pieces, a, by bolts 6 e, and held or braced inthe center by the rods or posts f.

J ournaled in the forward parts of the side frames or hangers, G, is thetreadle-shaft H, and journaled in the rear part of the said hangers isthe treadle-shaft I. These shafts 5 H I are by preference bent likecrank-axles, each to form two pairs of rotary treadles, h, to

which pedal-pieces, h, are pivoted, as shown clearly in the drawings.

Instead of bending the treadle-shafts to form two sets of treadles asingle set may be formed in them.

To one end of the treadle-shaft H is secured the sprocket or chain wheelJ, and in line with the wheel J is secured, upon the treadleshaftl, thesprocket or chain wheel K, and over these two wheels J K passes theendless chain L, so that the two treadle-shafts work together, and inorder that each treadle-shaft shall assist the other past thedead-center, the chain L should be placed upon the sprock- 6o et-WheelsJ K, so that while the treadles of the shaft H stand vertical thetreadles of the shaft I will be'in horizontal position, as shown in Fig.2. The treadle-shaft I extends at its ends past the side pieces, a a, ofthe main frame 6 5 A, and at its ends said shaft I is provided with thesprocket or chain wheels M M.

Upon the hubs of the wheels F F are secured the sprocket or chain wheelsN N, and over the wheels M N and M N are placed, respectively, theendless chains 0 P, so that the power applied to the treadle-shaft, H I,or either of them, will be communicated to the main wheels F F, and thuspropel the tricycle. The wheels M M are each formed 7 5 with a shank,(marked m and m, respectively,) and these shanks are each formed with agroove, (marked it and a, respectively,) and the wheels M M arejournaled upon the ends of the treadle-shaft I, outside of the hangers G50 'G, and are held upon the shaft so asto be adapted to revolve freelythereon by the bent clips 0, bolted to the under side of the hangers,the projections or lips 0 of the clips on tering the grooves of theshanks m m of the 8 5 wheels M M, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. The wheelM is smaller than the wheel M, and these wheels M M are adapted to bealternately clutched to, and released from, the treadle-shaft I, so thatthe power of the 0 treadle-shafts H I may be communicated to thetricycle either through the wheel M, chain 0, wheel N, and main wheel F,or through the wheel M, chain 1?, and main wheel F, which latter willimpart a less rapid speed to 9 5 the tricycle than the former, as thewheel M is smaller than the wheel M.

For clutching the wheels M and M to, and releasing them from, thetreadle-shaft I, we prefer to recess the outer surfaces of the 10c'wheels M M, as shown at p and p, and employ the square clutchblocks qq, placed onthe points i of the shaft, which blocks fit in the recessesp p. The extreme outer ends or points '5 i of the treadle-shaft I aremade square, and the clutch-blocksq q are made to fit and slide upon thepoints i, so that they revolve with the treadle-sha-ft I, and whenbrought to engage with the recesses in the wheels M M they look thewheels to the treadle-shaft.

The blocks q q are operated simultaneously in opposite directions, sothat when the wheel M is clutched the wheel M will be released, and viceversa, and for thus operating the clutch-blocks we employ the slidingbent rod R, (connected with the clutch-blocks, as described below,) thelever B for operating the rod R, and the locking-crest R with thenotches r, of which the spring-catch r of the lever B is adapted toengage for locking the lever and the rod R to the right or left, asrequired. The rod R is connected to the blocks (1 q by means of the arms8 8 (parts of the rod R) that are divided at their ends to form claws ss that enter circular grooves s 8 made in the blocks (1 g, as shownclearly in Figs. 1 and 3, so that by a simple movement of the lever Reither main wheel F or F may be made the drive-wheel, according as towhether a fast or slow speed is required.

S S represent curved springs secured upon the side pieces, a, of themain frame A, to which springs the seats T T are pivoted, and the seatsT in this instance are made for two persons, each to correspond with thesets of rotary treadles formed in the treadle-shafts H I, and in somecases only one treadle-shaft will be used, in which case one of theseats T will be dispensed with.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The main wheels F F, provided with sprocket-wheels N N, the shaft I,provided with sprocket-wheels M M, and connected to wheels N N by chains0 P, in combination with the sliding clutch-blocks q q, the rod R andlever B, the rod B being attached to the clutch-blocks for sliding them,and the wheels M M being loose upon the shaft and recessed at 19 p,substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The main wheels F F, provided with sprocket-wheels N N, the shaft, I,provided with sprocket-wheels M M,'and connected to wheels N N by chains0 P, in combination with the sliding clutch-blocksq q, the rod R,

lever B, the wheel M M being loose upon the shaft and recessed at p p,the treadle-shaft H, the sprocket-wheel J of said latter shaft, and thechain-belt L, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

THEODOR- R. A. WEBER. CARL G. E. HENNIG. ALFRED E. FROMMELT. WVitnesses:

OSCAR KIRSINGER, CARL HALTHAEUSEN.

